Learning Analytics

Reinforcement of technology-enhanced education transformed education into a data-intensive domain. As in many other data-intensive domains, the interest for data analysis through various analytics is growing. The chapter starts by defining learning analytics (LA), with relevant views on the literature. A discussion about the relationships between LA, educational data mining, and academic analytics is included in the background section. In the main section of the chapter, the learning analytics, as an emerging trend in the educational systems is described by discussing the main issues, controversies, and problems on this topic. The final part of the chapter presents the future research directions and the conclusion.